12 Best PS4 Exclusives Of The Generation So Far

4. The Last Guardian

Making a game about a giant cat/bird/dog/chicken was perhaps never going to catch on with the illustrious 'wider audience', but every piece of The Last Guardian was assembled with due care and attention, emerging seven years after first being announced way back in 2009.

Framed as a young boy awakening with no memory of what happened, only to discover a shackled and wounded 'guardian' (Trico) nearby, the two become fast friends, before setting off to escape, bond, and delve into how they both ended up there in the first place.

What follows is a gorgeously eastern tale with more than a few hints of Studio Ghibli's more subtle work, also letting ICO/Shadow of the Colossus mastermind Fumito Ueda make his mark on the new generation.

Trico's A.I. has been programmed with the need to train and learn to control it - much like that of a real animal - and whilst that meant a ton of players didn't have the patience or didn't 'get' what they were supposed to be doing, once everything clicks and it's the two of you against the world, The Last Guardian has a real sense of heart that I've seldom found anywhere else.